A group of about 150 Mormons quit their church in a mass resignation ceremony in Salt Lake City on Saturday in a rare display of defiance ending decades of disagreement for some over issues ranging from polygamy to gay marriage.

Participants from Utah, Arizona, Idaho and elsewhere gathered in a public park to sign a Declaration of Independence from Mormonism.

This feels awesome, said Alison Lucas, from West Jordan, Utah, who took part in the rally amid soaring temperatures. I dont know if I would have had the courage except in a group.

The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is known for its culture of obedience, and the mass ceremony was a seldom-seen act of collective revolt.

After gathering in the park, participants hiked a half-mile up nearby Ensign Peak, scaled in 1847 by church President Brigham Young to survey the spot where his Latter-day Saints would build a city.

At the top, those gathered gave three loud shouts of Freedom, cheered, clapped and hugged.

Its been a hard journey and this is a symbolic end, said event organizer Zilpha Larsen, of Lehi, Utah. I just hope that it boosts people up and helps them feel more comfortable in their decision.

The church bills itself as the one true Christian faith, and its theology promises families eternal relationships among those who remain faithful, sealing those gifts through special religious rites.

Among the reasons cited by those resigning are the churchs political activism against gay marriage and doctrinal teachings that conflict with scientific findings or are perceived as racist or sexist.

Others cite inconsistencies in the Mormons explanation of its own history, including the practice of polygamy. The church renounced plural marriage over a century ago as Utah was seeking statehood.

Among the reasons cited by those resigning are the churchs political activism against gay marriage and doctrinal teachings that conflict with scientific findings or are perceived as racist or sexist.

I doubt those upset with the Mormon church's (nominal -- obviously not practically binding, viz. Mitt Romney in Mass.) opposition to Gay Marriage will embrace the Roman Catholic or any other Christian church of traditional moral views.

You know that the leftists are always making these grandstanding displays, you can bet that there is some leftist advocacy group behind this and they probably get some of our tax payers money. This is how the communist controlled foundations work. These foundations have been taken over by communists a long time ago and they have been using them to wage war on America ever since. First they put up billboards urging people to leave the Catholic Church and now it is the Mormons, anyone who defies the sacred cows of the left will get this treatment.

Not ruddy likely. If they're leaving because they didn't like the Mormon teachings against homosexual 'marriage' and polygamy, what makes you think they'd agree with the teachings of the Catholic Church?

That particular teaching didnt catch on with Mitt. He invented gay marriage out of wholecloth in Massachusetts.

Nah, that was the doing of the Chief Justice of the MA Supreme Judicial Court, her husband, Anthony Lewis of the NY TIMES, and their group of political friends. They saw an opportunity and took it. Mitt just didn't fight it. Don't know if he didn't think he could, or what, but the Supreme Judicial Court ruled and that was that.

Whatever you think of Mitt, he didn't 'invent' homosexual marriage in MA. There had been a push for it, and there was even a referendum that was on the ballot that would have outlawed it, but it never made it on the ballot, because the Democrats in the legislature didn't allow it. The actions of the Supreme Judicial Court circumvented that legislation.

We continued to try to get it on the ballot, and were almost there, but when Deval Patrick was elected, he bribed 5 Legislators into changing their votes, and by their actions, kept the citizens of MA from being able to vote on the issue.

“Not ruddy likely. If they’re leaving because they didn’t like the Mormon teachings against homosexual ‘marriage’ and polygamy, what makes you think they’d agree with the teachings of the Catholic Church? “

I didn't see anybody comment upon this one graph from the article? (Why not?)

From the article: The church bills itself as the one true Christian faith, and its theology promises families eternal relationships among those who remain faithful, sealing those gifts through special religious rites.

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The middle portion of that graph -- "its theology promises families eternal relationships among those who remain faithful" -- means that mainstream Mormons still practice eternal polygamy in their own eyes...as long as they get sequentially married to serial partners in their temple.

So much for the Mormonistic PR lie that even in their own eyes, polygamy somehow went by the wayside!

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And the first part of that graph -- "The church bills itself as the one true Christian faith..." -- is based upon Mormon "scripture" below cited below:

Snapshot of Joseph Smiths Slanderous Invectives vs. Christian Sects

Mormon Source

Mormon church the only Christ-sanctioned church on earth:  the foundation of this [Mormon] church the ONLY true and living church on the face of the whole earth [Obvious scorched earth implication: All other churches are false and dead]

Lds scripture Doctrines & Covenants 1:30

I find it absolutely amazing that we have so many FREEPER conservatives... ...reared in fairly tolerant homes... ...and having rec'd secular high school and college campuses "multi-cultural" education -- including religiously "multi-cultural" education -- --yet somehow their voices utterly fail to even comment upon Mormonism's exclusive claim that "We're the only real church in town."

Why is that? (If you're a FREEPER and you go to a non-Mormon church, why do essentially "Amen!" the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as it goes on singing how "dead" and how "false" your church is?????????)

So much for the Mormonistic PR lie that it's "tolerant" toward other churches!!!!!!!!!!!

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